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The Good morning Bucknotters. Welcome to the Bucknuts Morning 5 here on Friday, January 2nd, 2026.

I am Dave Biddle. Very happy, joined by Jonah Booker. We're both in different locales today.

Well, I'm actually

at the same locale, just in a different part of my house because we're getting a furnace put in.

Jonah, you're still in Pasadena. You got a chance to see the Rose Bowl yesterday. Boy, Indiana just

smoked Alabama. My goodness, Indiana, they are operating on a different level. They looked

incredible.

When you look at the way that Kurt Sennetti has them playing right now,

Dave, they look like they're on a mission to win the national championship. They were playing at a different speed than Alabama just disciplined, fundamentally sound.

And you saw a team out there in that Rose Bowl that was operating with a sense of urgency.

They were playing with their hair on fire. It was fascinating. See, it was probably about 80, 20 Indiana fans there.

But it was a heck of a showing from them. That Oregon and Indiana game is going to be a good one.

But the way that Indiana's functioning and operating

right now, it would be hard pressed to bet against them.

All right, let's get into.

We'll talk more about the other teams in the CFP.

Ole Miss, that was cool to see them beat Georgia.

You know, and Oregon looked really good as well.

But let's get to Ohio State.

Geez, I still can't believe what happened. Miami is a very good team. I still have no idea how they lost to Louisville and SMU, but they did. What changes? I mean, there's a lot of things. What changes need to be made for the Buckeyes this offseason? They definitely need to bring in a competent offensive coordinator similar to what they did on the

defense with Matt Patricia. I think the whole strategy of playing slow all year when you have this

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